2017 Fall SeminarHilton Los Angeles Airport

September 5, 2017

November 3, 2017

Hilton Los Angeles Airport
CSHA is pleased to announce its 2017 Fall Seminar. Plan to join us for this informative and educational event.

Overview

We are pleased to invite you to join your fellow CSHA members at our 2017 Fall Seminar on Friday, November 3, 2017 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. The Fall Seminar will provide 6.75 MCLE hours of healthcare-specific presentations. Our program features educational sessions that are designed to keep you abreast of many of the foremost issues in health law.

This popular annual session provides an overview of new state laws and regulations. Our panelists will provide insight into the political climate and the factors driving the state legislature and regulatory agencies to help you and your clients prepare for 2018.

After 40 years of fiduciary focus on the retirement side, ERISA’s scrutiny is turning to health and welfare. This session will delineate how health plan sponsors, providers, third party advisors and others can become ensnared in ERISA’s fiduciary rules and regulations. The speakers will describe potential exposure – including personal liability – for directors, officers, employees and others; ERISA’s emerging focus on PBMs; “plan assets” under health plans and ERISA’s prohibited transaction and other rules; duties regarding selection and monitoring of fees, providers and benefits; and co-fiduciary breaches. Finally, best protections are discussed including, indemnification and ERISA fiduciary insurance.

Do your clients – and friends – ask what you think about single payer healthcare? This presentation will define single payer healthcare – what it is and what it isn’t; describe the components of single payer systems; and provide an overview of select international health care systems. This knowledge will help you prepare your clients for what may be coming.

Our speakers will draw upon their years of in-house counsel experience to talk about thorny issues they have confronted, including responding to government and private investigations; conflicts among board/management/employees; attorney client privilege; preservation of evidence; executives and independent counsel; and dealing with independent board committees. The speakers will also look at the big-picture issues, such as the increasing criminalization of corporate decisions; philosophical approaches to settling big cases where the plaintiff’s chance of success is remote but the stakes are high; and generally serving as the moral and ethical center for a company whose financial success may depend on high-risk gambles. How do you make the tough “judgment calls”?

With careers spanning all sides of a FCA case (relator, investigator, prosecutor, government program, defendant, and independent monitor), these attorneys each will select and present a current FCA topic or case for discussion by this eclectic group and the audience at large.

Wither SLAPP – Life After ParkCarlo Coppo, Nossaman LLP; John Harwell, Law Offices of John D. Harwell; and Erin Muellenberg, Polsinelli LLP

Our speakers will discuss the Calif. Supreme Court decision in Park v. Board of Trustees of the California State University, including a brief history of anti-SLAPP law in California, the initial extension of anti-SLAPP protection to peer review and other matters of critical interest to hospitals in Kibler v. Northern Inyo Hospital, the impact of Park on prior case law since Kibler, and what’s going on in the appellate courts since. The speakers will also discuss the Tulare Regional Medical Center case if a decision has been issued.

5:00 pm | Adjournment & Distribution of MCLE Certificates

Tuition/MCLE

Register by October 19, 2017 and save!
Members $195
Non-members $450
Law Students and Government Attorneys $25*This rate is for government attorneys who did not attend the 2017 Annual Meeting and Spring Seminar. Government attorneys who attended will be charged regular tuition rates. Contact us at csha@calhealth.org for more details.

Registrations received after October 19, add $50.**Law Student and Government Attorney member rate will remain $25.

Minimum Continuing Legal Education

The California Society for Healthcare Attorneys is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. The Fall Seminar provides 6.75 hours of MCLE credit.

Cancellation Policy

All cancellations must be in writing and received in the CSHA office by October 26, 2017. Seminar registration fees, minus a $75 processing fee, will be refunded for cancellations received by the October 26deadline. Substitutions may be arranged by contacting the CSHA offices.

Accommodations

Discount deadline is October 5, 2017

CSHA has reserved a limited number of rooms at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport at a rate of $144 per night, plus tax. The deadline for reserving rooms at this rate has been extended to October 15, 2017. Contact the hotel directly at (310) 410-4000 or toll free at (800) 445-8667 and mention the “CSHA Fall Seminar” to receive the discounted rate.

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